i think when you look back to president clinton with welfare reform, we sent a bill, the republican congress three times. he vetoed twice and finally signed it. i don't know that that's in president obama's dna, but hope springs eternal. i'm not holding my breath. but let's pass a bill repealing it, send it to him and see what he does. if at that point 75% of the american people want it repealed and he's thinking about his reelect in 2014, then who knows. but short of that as you point out absolutely we have the power of the purse. we can defund. every one of these agencies involved in implementing this new law will need $5 billion to $10 billion of appropriations. we can stop that and certainly stop the irs from hiring those 15,000 additional inspectors to go over people's tax returns to make sure that they have indeed purchased health insurance. >> yeah. it's interesting. i should just point out for the point of this conversation you're a doctor. you're an ob/gyn. congresswoman schwartz you were an executive basically running philadelphia's health care system. so we bring a lot of experien